Word: schisms
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...street. Humanities majors (and indeed probably much of the general public) tend to view their more math-and-sciencey counterparts as pale, soul-less sorts who shun the light and prefer the company of machines to that of humans. So we can see that the schism between science and the humanities is not an imagined...
...papyrus scrolls. The Old Testament was hewed and edited in the 1st century A.D., when the scrolls were turned into primitive books called codices. Forced for the first time to assign to the Holy Story a beginning, middle and end, Christian and Hebrew scholars took different paths--creating a schism that endures to this day. For example, Jews pray from a Bible (known as the Tanach) that places the prophecies right after the book of Deuteronomy; Christians don't encounter the prophets until the very end of the Good Book...
...keynote address delivered at the same convention by Indiana Governor Evan Bayh shone the national spotlight on a topic that epitomizes the schism of philosophy in this year's presidential election: "In this election, no issue more clearly defines the differences between the two major parties and their nominees than education...
...absence of assimilatory policies that will cause the disintegration of this country, but their presence. Such policies, overt or covert, will carry with them the implied message of "war" against non-Anglo ethnicities. This may precipitate the formation of an anti-Anglo coalition, thus rending a great schism in our society. Besides its immediate domestic consequences, this would tarnish the American image overseas, sending the United States to the bottom rank of world democracies and weakening the U.S. leadership position in the world...
...dramatic 1911 Amundsen-Scott race to the South Pole; but even that analogy falls short. For the rivalry between the two researchers is not merely personal (Brooks considered naming his robot Psych! just to get Lenat's goat) but deeply philosophical as well, straddling the almost theological schism that runs down the middle of contemporary...